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Why Apple Won’t Buy GM
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) can afford to buy GM. The No. 1 US auto firm makes a fair amount of money, has nearly 20% of the American car market, and is the largest…
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Top Day Trader Alerts (SYMC, CHKP, BRCD, BSDM, MNKD, NTAP, PETM, STEM)
Day traders and active traders have many movers this Wednesday morning to choose from. The top alerts were seen in Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), Brocade…
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Apps & Software
Intel Changes The Game With McAfee Buyout (INTC, MFE, SYMC, CHKP)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has made a game changing event. It announced that it is acquiring McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) via a Business Wire press release. The $7.68 billion deal comes to…
8:17am ET
Investing
Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ANF, ARUN, CRUS, DGI, ECA, GPS, MOT, OTEX, SIRI, SYMC)
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Raised to Accumulate at Standpoint. Aruba…
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Retail
The Unusual Suspects For This Week (AKAM, ALU, APP, BAC, CROX, F, GE, GENZ, RIMM, SYMC, WCRX, EZA, FFD, AFK)
There are many major stocks to watch this coming week as The Unusual Suspects… We tried to refrain from many earnings previews as earnings season still has too many players to single…
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Apps & Software
The Death of Symantec (SYMC, MFE, CHKP)
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) probably just managed to lose the patience of every last shareholder it has after posting poor earnings. Earnings were in-line with estimates, but revenues were flat and a…
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMD, ACI, CTXS, EQIX, JDSU, NVDA, FTO, SO, SYMC)
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Arch Coal…
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Media
Media Digest 5/6/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
MarketWatch: Asia shares were off by 2%. Reuters:  Riots against austerity measures continued n Greece. Reuters:  US regulators want to increase supervision of broadband. Reuters:  The Fed’s Rosengren says rates must stay…
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Next Week’s Can’t Miss Earnings (MA, MRK, PFE, SIRI, CHK, GRMN, JDSU, LVS, SYMC, FNM, LVLT, AIG, CROX, KFT, NVDA, SQNM)
Earnings season is slowly getting behind us for the regular quarter-end companies. But there are still many influential companies still reporting which can still move their respective sectors. Many cult stocks are…
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On Nasdaq Peak Holiday, Shorts Exit Tech And Junk Stocks
On the tenth anniversary of the tech bubble of 2000, short sellers aggressively dropped their bets against hardware, software and internet companies. Figures are from February 28. The short interest in Apple…
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Media
Media Digest 3/10/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters:  Democrats may miss their goal to vote on healthcare reform. Reuters:  China exports rose 46% in February. Reuters:  China’s Geely raised money to buy Volvo. Reuters:  Strong Chinese trade data made…
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Hacker Ring Steals Data From Half Of America’s 1000 Largest Firms
Internet security, whether it is provided by software companies or the government, is not very good. Law enforcement groups have finally shut down the Mariposa botnet which is one of the world’s…
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BIDU, BHP, CHL, CHA, GMCR, INFY, RAX, SRE, SYMC, UPS, VSAT)
These are this Wednesday morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in major Wall Street research calls: Baidu, inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank; Raised to Buy at…
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Telecom & Wireless
Hackers To Hit Apple iPhone, Google Android Handsets Next Year
Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas made a number of either intemperate or prescient comments to USA Today. It may take a year to find out if he is a fool or a profit.…
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Investing
Short Sellers Move Back Into Financial Shares, Ignore Tech: Flee Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) And Amazon (AMZN)
Short sellers sharply increased their gamble that financial stocks would fall based on short selling data from NYSE and Nasdaq on the last day of November. Shorts pushed into Citigroup (NYSE:C), increasing…